Miles R. Silman

/Miles R. Silman

Miles R. Silman

Associate Director of Science

Dr. Miles R. Silman is an associate director of CINCIA.

He has worked in the Western Amazon and Andes for the past 25 years to understand and protect the last remaining forests on the planet. His conservation projects include work on tropical agriculture, remediation of soils degraded by gold mining, and monitoring and evaluation of deforestation. The results of his research on Andean and Amazon forests have been used to generate private and public ecosystem service projects that change the use of the land, generating income for conservation and creating economic and social value for the people who live in the region. He is currently Professor of Conservation Biology at the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation and Director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University.

Miles Silman is an ecologist and researcher interested in the study of life and its distribution in the world, both in space and through time, understanding the roles and interactions between species in structuring the world we see and inhabit.